February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
So I strongly support the SEC issuing a rule in the near future that would require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their spending on political activities.
Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.
And corporations should be limited in their scope and function--and must have expiration dates, like a carton of milk. And must be available for what is euphemistically yclept "the death penalty."
Sincerely,
Michael Slaughter